Time management habits: time management skills peculiar to sport club directors; 5.3

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Introduction. The concept of time is analyzed in different aspects: philosophical, psychological, economic, legal, managerial etc. Philosophical conception of time reveals the basic characteristics of this phenomenon: everything that happens in certain space and time. According to Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD) "It is not that we have a short space of time but that we waste much of it. (...) The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully" (On the Shortness of Life). In the last two decades, time management has received increasing research interest. Laurie-Ann M. Hellsten (2012) examined the existing time management literature since 2000 using the keywords time management and identified 993 journal articles. His findings are presented in the article What do we know about time management? According to Laurie-Ann M. Hellsten (2012, p. 5), "seven time management skills or behaviours can be considered essential to effective time management due to their repetitive prominence in the literature: time analysis, planning, goal setting, prioritizing, scheduling, organizing, and establishing new and improving the existing habits (Barkas, 1984; Feeny Jonson, 2002; Hellsten & Rogers, 2009; Jorde, 1982; Lakein, 1973; Mackenzie, 1972, 1975, 1990; Morris, 2001; Woolfolk & Woolfolk, 1986)". Time planning skill is one of the key competencies of an active and successful individual. According to Kelly (2002), in order to utilize time effectively, individuals must first be able to predict how much time is needed for the activity. Macan, Shahani, Dipboye, and Phillips (1990) introduced perceived control of time into time management studies. The authors claim that this variable is characterized by an employee's perception of having enough time to finish a job and the ability to meet deadlines. Some studies have examined perceived control of time as a predictor of job statisfaction, [...].